neurological damage

“After about 8 hours of not being able to get our 5-day old daughter to eat, we took her to the emergency room. ‘She’s fine,’ they told me again. I kissed my 2-year-old. ‘I’ll be back as soon as I can. I’m just going to go make sure your sister is okay.’”

“As far as we were concerned, we were going to give perfect to a perfect, healthy little girl. Instead, she was born with unusually low ears, a cone-shaped head, and a squeezed brain. NO ONE at our hospital had seen anything like it. I was in shock and kept thinking, ‘Why her? How am I supposed to take care of her?!’ I didn’t feel prepared or strong enough for this. I was grieving the loss of a child, the one I thought I was having.”